Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
@@ -419,14 +427,16 @@
+
Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
-
-
OpenBSD/i386:
-
+OpenBSD/i386:
+
+
Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
@@ -454,26 +464,26 @@
To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
at CD1:4.2/tools/rawrite.exe. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
use the
-dd(1)
+dd(1)
utility. The following is an example usage of
-dd(1),
+dd(1),
where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
"rfd0a".
-
+
# dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k
-
+
Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
this page.
-
+
+
OpenBSD/amd64:
+
-
OpenBSD/amd64:
-
The 4.2 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
your BIOS options first.
@@ -489,22 +499,20 @@
If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.amd64.
-
+OpenBSD/macppc:
+
-
OpenBSD/macppc:
-
Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
C key until the display turns on and shows OpenBSD/macppc boot.
Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter boot cd:,ofwboot
/4.2/macppc/bsd.rd
-
+OpenBSD/sparc64:
+
-
OpenBSD/sparc64:
-
Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type boot cdrom.
@@ -523,12 +531,11 @@
If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
-
+OpenBSD/alpha:
+
-
OpenBSD/alpha:
-
-Write FTP:4.2/alpha/floppy42.fs or
+Write FTP:4.2/alpha/floppy42.fs or
FTP:4.2/alpha/floppyB42.fs (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
enter boot dva0. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
@@ -536,12 +543,9 @@
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
-
+OpenBSD/armish:
-
OpenBSD/armish:
-
-
After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
@@ -549,83 +553,68 @@
and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
-
+OpenBSD/hp300:
+
-
OpenBSD/hp300:
-
+OpenBSD/hppa:
+
-
OpenBSD/hppa:
-
+OpenBSD/landisk:
+
-
OpenBSD/landisk:
-
-
Write miniroot42.fs to the start of the CF
or disk, and boot normally.
-
+OpenBSD/mac68k:
+
-
OpenBSD/mac68k:
-
-
Boot MacOS as normal and extract the Macside "BSD/Mac68k Booter" utility from
FTP:4.2/mac68k/utils onto your hard disk. Configure the "BSD/Mac68k
Booter" with the location of your bsd.rd kernel and boot into the installer.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.mac68k for more details.
-
+OpenBSD/mvme68k:
+
-
OpenBSD/mvme68k:
-
-
You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.
The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the NIOT
and NBO debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
for more details.
-
+OpenBSD/mvme88k:
+
-
OpenBSD/mvme88k:
-
-
You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.
The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the NIOT
and NBO debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
for more details.
-
+OpenBSD/sparc:
+
-
OpenBSD/sparc:
-
Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
-
-ok boot cdrom 4.2/sparc/bsd.rd
+
+ok boot cdrom 4.2/sparc/bsd.rd
or
-> b sd(0,6,0)4.2/sparc/bsd.rd
-
+> b sd(0,6,0)4.2/sparc/bsd.rd
+
If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
@@ -634,11 +623,11 @@
To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
depending on the version of your ROM.
-
-ok boot floppy
+
+ok boot floppy
or
-> b fd()
-
+> b fd()
+
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
@@ -648,45 +637,46 @@
If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
INSTALL.sparc file.
-
+
OpenBSD/vax:
+
-
OpenBSD/vax:
-
Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
-
+OpenBSD/zaurus:
+
-
OpenBSD/zaurus:
-
-
Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
openbsd42_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
for a few important details.
-
+
+
+
+Notes about the source code:
+
-
Notes about the source code:
-
-# mkdir -p /usr/src
-# cd /usr/src
-# tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz
-
-
sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
To extract:
-
-
-# mkdir -p /usr/src/sys
-# cd /usr/src
+
+
+# mkdir -p /usr/src/sys
+# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz
-
+
+
Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
@@ -694,30 +684,32 @@
Using these files
results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
-
-
-
+
+
+